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trenchantly, adv.|ˈtrɛn(t)ʃəntlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a trenchant manner; ‘cuttingly’, incisively; sharply and effectively; definitely; so as to go to the root of a matter.
a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 61 b, Him bi-houez to seggen trenchauntliche þat he is bastard. 1870R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xiii. 116 He is trenchantly severe on better painters than himself. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life vii. iii. (1875) 241 The educations of the two sexes were so trenchantly separated that neither had access to the knowledge of the other. 1877Le Conte Elem. Geol. iii. (1879) 161 Groups of species confined within certain areas differing from other groups, sometimes overlapping them, sometimes trenchantly separated. 1896W. C. Sidgwick in Times 11 Dec. 10/6, I hope the ‘roughness of my methods’ only means that I dealt trenchantly with his theories.
So ˈtrenchantness, the quality of being trenchant.
1892Temple Bar Mag. Oct. 289 She..says so, with a trenchantness which brings up a little cloud of disappointed surprise. |